While the number of special districts has been growing steadily throughout the United States since the 1950s, Illinois has consistently had more special districts than any other state. In the six-county greater Chicago region, there were 353 special districts (other than school districts) in 1962.
Moral distress is the physical or emotional suffering that is experienced when constraints (internal or external) prevent one from following the course of action that one believes is right. With more responsibility than authority, nurses often lack the autonomy to do what they feel should be done. Nurses often seem unaware of moral distress experience in themselves. Feelings labeled as stress, burnout, emotional exhaustion, and job dissatisfaction may actually be symptomatic of moral distress.
(hyuËmÃ¦n ÉªËtÉÉr i Én; often yu-) adj. 1. having concern for or helping to improve the welfare and happiness of people. 2. pertaining to the saving of human lives or to the alleviation of suffering: a humanitarian crisis. 3. pertaining to ethical or theological humanitarianism.